Commonwealth v. Robicheau’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably O'BRIEN v. Borowski (2012), Iamele v. Asselin (2005)
52 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire · Roberts v. United States Jaycees · Watts v. United States · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Madsen v. Women's Health Center, Inc.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The elements of threatening a crime [under G. L. c. 275, § 2,] include an expression of intention to inflict a crime on another and an ability to do so in circumstances that would justify apprehension on the part of the recipient of the threat.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the First Amendment does not protect conduct that threatens another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.